South Side man charged with illegal gun sales

Jevon Standback, 25, faces charges of unlawful selling of a firearm and illegal transfer of a firearm.

Jevon Standback, 25, faces charges of unlawful selling of a firearm and illegal transfer of a firearm. (Cook County Sheriff's photo)

A Chicago man bought four guns, including a MAC-11 pistol, in Florida and illegally resold them, including one that was in the car of a convicted felon when it crashed as he tried to flee police in Harvey this summer, authorities said.

Jevon Standback, 25, faces charges of unlawful selling of a firearm and illegal transfer of a firearm, according to a news release from the Cook County sheriff’s office.

The MAC-11 semiautomatic handgun was found in the vechicle of the convicted felon when he was arrested in Harvey July 24, after he crashed while trying to drive away from a traffic stop by Cook County Sheriff’s police, according to police. Using a federal database, investigators were able to track the guns back to Standback, and learned he originally bought four guns in Florida.

Investigators were able to determine that Standback sold the four guns in March 2012 near 101st Street and Eggleston Avenue, and neither documented the sale nor checked that the buyers had Illinois firearms owners identification cards, according to police.

Standback, of the 9800 block of South Eggleston Avenue, was ordered held in lieu of $100,000 bail in a hearing midday today before Cook County Criminal Court Judge Mria Kuriakos-Cieil, according to court records.